to not get this about pack lunches..

[Butterflykissess]

son today was told in school he is not allowed to eat oreos at lunch time. as they are "chocolate." its hardly a flaming mars bar! and considering on the school menu os chocolate cake, ice cream etc. aibu to think ots ridiculous?

The crap some parents put in their children's packed lunches is ridiculous! Mcdonalds, left over takeaways, Haribo, massive bars of chocolate! Nut fucking Ella...(I didn't realise it had nuts in) Schools have to promote healthy eating and the cakes that most schools serve up taste like shit because they are not allowed to add salt or suger!

Surely the ban is there because otherwise some kids will have crisps + chocolate bar + fizzy drink + cake + biscuits + sweets in the packed lunch. This is then very hard to keep track of , so it's much easier to simply say none of this stuff is allowed. Then there is no grey area to argue.

Yeah, Oreos are health food compared with Mars Bars. Practically one of your five a day

DDs snack foods are most definitely not low sugar (when bought as tuck). Having seen the packets & cartons they come out of i can say that 100%. Haven't tasted the school lunches.

It's a bit disconcerting tho. Having your 5 year old come home to say they had their kitkat taken off of them but the dinner kids were allowed chocolate cake is quite tricky to explain.

My DS old primary was like that. Once i had run out of his yoghurt so put in a strawberry muller corner.. He had it removed because it wasn't the fun size pot / kids size as they said it would get wasted .. I went mad I said if I thought he wouldn't eat it then I wouldn't of put it in there. And if he didn't it's me who gets the yucky sloppy lunchbox to clean out lol.
I then worked there for a bit and one child had a lunch which was.
Bread and butter
Mini choc fingers.
Mini party rings
Mini maryland
Frube

When I questioned with someone senior I was told he was fussy so if he didn't eat that he'd be hungry and no other reason
One rule for one one for another..

FromThen on if I wanted to put a small. Treat or bag of crisps in there I did

Ds is now at secondary school their menu consists of. Sausage rolls. Bagels. Pasta pots. Pizza, burgers. Baguettes and sandwiches.. Selection of cakes.. Only fruit and veg is carrot sticks or apple bags.
Aparantly it's all the kids buy and we're getting wastage. I only allow ds to have that on pe days as already has a full bag. He generally gets a chicken baguette.. But sometimes sausage rolls

Perhaps if we just put proper "food" in a packed lunch, not the stuff we are told not to eat lots of.

no cake, no biscuits, no crisps, no chocolate, no sweets, no sugar laden pudding tubs or drinks.

We don't need to eat the stuff in the "no" list - not even for "balance" - so why do kids have to eat it at school

Show me the chocolate here:
WheatFlour, Sugar, Vegetable Oil (Palm), Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder 4.6%,WheatStarch, Glucose-Fructose Syrup, Salt, Raising Agents (Potassium Hydrogen Carbonate, Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate, Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate), Emulsifiers (SoyaLecithin, Sunflower Lecithin), Flavouring (Vanillin)

It's the cocoa, chocolate sponge cake has no actual chocolate in the cake but the cocoa makes it chocolatey.

if the rest of the lunch was healthy I can't see how having a biscuit after lunch is a problem especially since school provides pudding. it's not like you sent in a whole pack of biscuits. I do understand some parents give awful lunches so I guess it's tough for them to get it right. I also say pack lunch op I'm from the north east.

I don't even like Oreos tbh. Ds gets a small biscuit item in his packed lunch. School doesn't police lunch boxes. He also has fruit/yoghurt/bagel, etc

A Club or Penguin are known as chocolate covered biscuit bars by the companies that sell them (used to work in the brand team for one of them) HTH

This annoys me too. My dd now has school meals which usually include cake, crumble, ice cream or flapjack.

Oreos are not sweets or chocolate, they are biscuits. I don’t see the problem with a small chocolate bar, biscuit or cake as long as the rest of their lunch is healthy (sandwich, roll, wrap). Surely a diet should be balanced and not sugar free?

Packed lunch vs pack lunch

Is this a regional thing? Or a misunderstood thing that always crops up on MN

It's obviously a mistake caused by the fact that the -ed part of packed is dropped in speech. Like the d in sandwich.

That then gets transferred incorrectly to the written word.

But given that this is not a formal text, I'd let it slide.

@zzzzz

What the actual fuck is a sugar sandwich? Is it bread with sugar? What possessed you to feed that to your kid?

It's all shite. Oreos are a sugary treat as are flapjacks, cup cakes, snickers, home made cake etc. Just cos some have. 00001 grams fibre doesn't make them healthier. Just middle class parents trying to make themselves feel better.

I have this gripe too so YANBU it's ridiculous that schools give for dinners ice cream chocolate cake and milk. However I can't send a biscuit in or even milk because it's not school policy how is milk unhealthy and why can't I send it in if I do wish to do so? Makes me laugh when you see teachers there with cans of coke too - practice what you preach surely?

Irritated the hell out of me when mine were primary age. I'm perfectly capable of providing my children with a properly healthy balanced packed lunch. If you have parents who don't, can't, or won't, then speak to them directly and leave the rest of us alone.

These are chocolate ones! They had these and white chocolate ones in one of my local shops today

At my DCs primary school, they were not allowed to eat the fresh fruit in their lunch boxes until they had finished the sandwich...

how is milk unhealthy and why can't I send it in if I do wish to do so?

WTF?
you mean normal milk? (as in, like a pint of milk for the day?)

i often have a pint of milk sat at my desk - good for calcium, no preparation, if it's in a single pint it doesn't go off by the end of the day...

why on earth would this not be allowed in a school?!

@Rocin - zzzz got fed it as z child - as did I - it's really not much different to bread and jam but I expect like my family, zzzz wasnt rolling around in fresh avocado.

I think this is a non-issue. Of course you shouldn't put chocolate, biscuits, crisps and sweets in your child's packed lunch.

What the school feeds them is a different issue - some chocolate cake as part of a balanced lunch is not the same thing as giving parents free reign to chuck whatever crap they like in their child's lunch.

If your school is not serving healthy meals then pick it up with them directly.

I remember sugar sandwiches, Branston pickle sandwiches and tomato sauce ones too. I ate some crap food!

Mollyhuacha- worst way to eat fruit. Vitamins (Plus alcohol and a few drugs,) are the only things to be absorbed through the stomach lining so fruit should be eaten before a me do so that the vitam8ns are absorbed on an empty rather than full stomach.

Well it is ironic in that it would be better for him to have dark chocolate than it would be to have oreos. Not sure that a Mars bar actually counts as chocolate either. Mars bars and oreos have more in common than Mars bars and Real chocolate.